Senate committee to hear bill on “shaming” customers who buy fuel products
After failing to ramp up regulation of the fossil-fuel industry or ban the drilling of new oil and gas wells in 2024, environmental groups are…
Legislative Session
Legislators consider law change that would require VW-backed electric truck to be sold by VW dealers
Colorado legislators are being asked to referee a dispute between startup electric vehicle brand Scout Motors and the state’s Volkswagen auto dealers — a dispute…
Pinnacol Assurance conversion isn’t happening in this budget plan. Here’s why.
When Colorado’s Joint Budget Committee members sit down this week to work out differences between the House and Senate versions of the 2025-26 budget, there…
Builders explain why construction-defects reform bill may not restart condo market
Even after members of a key Senate committee rallied around a construction-defects reform bill this week, homebuilders continue to have serious questions about whether it…
New law bars grocery stores from acquiring further full-alcohol-sales licenses
The era of grocery stores adding full alcohol sales to their premises appears to be over. Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday signed into law Senate…
“An industry on the edge of demise”: Childcare struggles with regulation
Colorado’s struggling childcare sector got a win Tuesday with the death of a bill it opposed. But providers say they continue to suffer from regulatory…
Disabilities-rights lawsuit bill now before Colorado Senate has undergone major changes
When a Colorado Senate committee considers a bill next week to expand the ability of people with disabilities to recover damages in lawsuits, it will…
Bill would curb tax breaks for insurers, software and enterprise-zone investment
Colorado legislators are considering a rewrite of the state’s tax code that would curtail incentives now offered to certain industries — including telecommunications and oil…
Construction-defects reform bill getting support. But will it get condos built?
After the addition of eight amendments meant to salve critics, sponsors of a construction-defects reform bill watched it pass the House Monday by a 59-5…
Senate kills bill to make it easier to file some business-focused lawsuits
Having advanced for the first time as far as the floor of the Colorado Senate, a bill to make it easier to file pricey deceptive-trade-practices…